Happy New Year! Also, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the Best Marvel Movie, Thanks. And Desk?
Wow, it’s been a while, huh?
In my defense, I was working on a draft of a new book. And I moved house for the third time in three years. And then holidays. So I think it would be fair to say that blogging was asking sort of a lot.
But let’s not dwell on the stressful things. Let’s dwell on happy things!
Like my new desk!
(Yes, I’m aware that you probably don’t care about my desk and might be tempted to leave. You may not care about my stationery, either. But you might feel differently when I promise you cute penguin stationery! Everybody loves cute penguin stationery. Except monsters. You’re not a monster, are you? See! So you’re staying, it’s agreed. Yay!)
And yes, there is news about the draft (tiny news, itty-bitty news, do-not-get-excited news, seriously.). But I put it at the end to force you to scroll through all the cute stationery pictures first, because cute stationery will bring you peace, and I want that for you.
It’s true.
Anyway. As I said, I moved three times in the last three years. For the record, I don’t recommend it. It’s stressful AF. On the other hand, I have mastered the Marie Kondo, in that everything I own now brings me crazy levels of joy, because I was not hauling shit I don’t love through three different moving trucks in that same length of time.
Stuff I did not keep includes any book, movie, or TV show that can reasonably be found in any local library. That eliminated like, half my belongings right there.
Although I did keep all of my Marvel movies, because sometimes you just need a Marvel movie right that minute. Yes, I have Disney+. No, that did not affect my decision in any way. Sometimes you just need to look at a Marvel movie right that minute. Especially Captain America: Winter Soldier. Everyone knows that one’s the best. (You might disagree. You’re entitled to your opinion. You’re wrong, but you’re entitled to it. I’m joking. I’m mostly joking. I’m 98% joking.) (Wait, seriously, though, is Winter Soldier not your favorite? Which one is, then? Fair warning, I’m totally going to judge your answers in a friendly, this-doesn’t-actually-matter-because-personal-taste-is-entirely-subjective sort of way. My criteria is simple. If you choose any of the following I will find you demonstrably awesome: Winter Soldier, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Iron Man and Avengers: Infinity War. If you say Age of Ultron, I’ll assume you’re a child of the eighties who has fond memories of James Spader and/or that you’re a fangirl who reads a lot of fic where the Avengers all live happily together in the Tower as a family (I will neither confirm nor deny that I do this too, although you could argue that by mentioning it, I’ve sort of given myself away.). If you answer Endgame, I’ll think your heart is made of sticky sweet gummy bears, and if you answer Thor: The Dark World, you’ll be shunned. Nicely. But still. Other than those very wide open constraints, I’d like to hear your thoughts on which is your favorite and why. I promise I won’t actually be mean about it.)
If you say Avengers: Assemble, we’re going to be best friends even though that’s not even a movie, because I’m like eight episodes in and it is SO GOOD. HOW DID I NOT KNOW HOW FUNNY THIS IS? IT’S LITERALLY THAT PARTY SCENE FROM AGE OF ULTRON FOR HOURS AT A TIME.
Holy cow, did I get off track.
Anyway, my desk. And some penguins.
I haven’t figured out what to put on the walls yet. Currently accepting suggestions.
Can you tell who my two favorite marvel characters are?
THEY’RE PENGUIN POST-ITS. YOU GUYS KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT POST-ITS. AND THEY’RE PENGUINS! Seriously, though, they’re not Post-it brand, obviously, and don’t bother asking where I got them, because I didn’t buy them for myself. They were a gift. You’re gonna have to google and play detective if you’re jealous. Which I can understand, because they’re awesome. I’d be jealous too. Jell-o levels of jealous. Lime green Jell-o. HER NAME IS ELSA AND SHE HAS A FISH, YOU GUYS.
That claw thing is a back-scratcher. It’s not a weapon, I promise.
And finally, the piece de resistance: the penguin pencil cup.
Again, this was a gift. No idea where it came from. However, for reasons that’ll become clear in the following picture, pretty sure it’s Japanese.
Yes, that would appear to be an insert warning people not to throw the pencil cup at other people. Or to not look in the pencil cup? Maybe they’re worried about eye gouging? How many people have gouged their eyes out—or the eyes of a neighbor—using a pencil held in this pencil cup? I’m gonna guess none, and yet they felt it was necessary to warn for it using vaguely threatening and unclear sketches. You guys, Japan is AWESOME.
That’s the end! Thanks for staying!
Oh, wait, I promised you unimpressive tiny news about the draft. And the news is: it’s gonna get released! Yay! I don’t know how yet. Or with whom. It might be on Patreon but it might not. All of that stuff is up in the air. BUT. The point is that the work is done enough that there’s only editing left, and that at some point it will be released somehow. It will not be abandoned.
I told you, it’s unimpressive tiny news. But either this year or next, there will be a book. Somewhere.
And in case you remember my previous blog post where I detailed a number of projects, the done one is the one that had a gif where the viking makes the two unicorns kiss. So. Um. That’ll be fun to read? Hopefully? There aren’t actually vikings in it. Or unicorns. I feel like this got away from me.
I’m gonna go now. Bye.
Oh, shit, also, happy holidays! This whole thing was supposed to be about wishing you happy holidays. Belatedly. I’m gonna have to fix my working title of Happy Holidays because this has just been a mess. Something as succinct, hopefully. God, I’m terrible at blogging.